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• Regional: Asia: Japan: Arts and Entertainment: Traditional: Architecture (10)
• Regional: Asia: Japan: Society and Culture: History: Feudal Period (8)

• Castles of Japan - Aryn Lickey provides a computer aided montage of how Yonago Castle might have appeared, with a map of its location.
• Castles of Japan - Takashi Toyooka offers a location map, brief description, thumbnail photographs and any relevant links for each castle. Select via an interactive map or an index. Bibliography.
• Goryokaku - Constructed reason,record of war,size of building.
• Guide to Japanese Castles - Eric Obershaw provides a general history and description of castles in Japan, and photographs of castles he has visited, with histories taken from the official brochures and display text.
• Japanese Castle - History, movie, and links.
• Japanese Castle Explorer - An interactive map, pictures and information about the Castles of Japan.
• Japanese Castles - A few photographs by Jamie Marconi of the more famous castles in Japan.
• Japanese Castles - List of castle ruins and history.
• Japanese Castles - Read guides to Japanese castles and Japanese castle architecture including Himeji Castle, Kumamoto Castle, Nijo Castle and other important castles.
• Japanese castles - Structures, castle town, history, guard tower and wall and moat.
• Japan’s 100 Famous Castles And Castle Ruins - Famous 100 castles map in JAPAN. Selected by the authority(JAPAN CASTLE Association )
• Matsumoto Castle - History, design and photograph of castle tower and decoration.
• Nijo Castle - Kyoto castle built by the first Tokugawa shogun.
• Oshiro Meguri Fan - Gallery in Japan castle and city's setting.
• Shiro: A Japanese Castle - Stephen Wyley discusses the development and aspects of Japanese castles. Drawings by Steven Lowe.
• The Castles of Japan - ThinkQuest provides an illustrated guide to surviving castles, together with the historic context and design features. Includes a bibliography and simulations of castle-storming.
• Virtual Tour Himeji Castle - History, map, tour and gallery of photographs of this magnificent timber castle on a stone base, built in 1601 by Terumasa Ikeda - a World Heritage site. By Hakurotowa No Kai.
• Wikipedia: Azuchi Castle - An illustrated history and description of this fortress built 1576-1579 by Oda Nobunaga on the shores of Lake Biwa.
• Wikipedia: Edo Castle - An illustrated history and description of this castle built in 1457 by Ōta Dōkan in what is now the Chiyoda ward of Tokyo.
• Wikipedia: Osaka Castle - An illustrated history and description of this important castle, built from 1583 by Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

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